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Hidalgo, TX – a truck speeds across a barren landscape with a cop car in high pursuit. When the cops finally catch up and open the back of the truck they find illegal aliens making for America. And…

Hey, I thought this was Eleventh Hour, not the news! Oh wait, there are only three babies there, not eight (oh timely references no one will remember a month from now!). Three babies, completely identical. Soon Jacob and Rachel are on the scene due to the rarity of identical triplets. But are they triplets? A diaper bag is recovered from the truck with four baby passports… four identical babies, identical in looks, but their DNA shows they have different mothers. Which means they’re actually clones. Which means Gepetto is probably involved! Our good friend Gepetto, evil mad geneticist from the first episode.

Some footage of the truck is recovered and we see a young couple fleeing the scene with the other baby. Jacob knows it’s important to find this baby, as clones often have health problems due to their replicated DNA. They begin tracking leads. For instance, Lea Muller, one of Gepetto’s henchmen who was arrested, was recently poisoned in jail, poisoned by a box of chocolates that Val Tambor brought to her. Only he wasn’t really Val Tambor. He was obviously someone working for Gepetto, someone she hired to eliminate loose ends.

Nelly, the girl who is possession of baby #4, goes with her boyfriend Christofer to her sister’s house for help. Evidently Nelly was the babies’ nanny. Clara, her sister, is afraid to get too involved, but she gives Nelly some money to take care of the baby. Bad idea, as soon fake Tambor is knocking on her door for information. He kills her when she won’t tell him where her sister is.

Jacob and Rachel arrive on the scene and find pictures of Nelly and Christofer, so they know they’re connected to Clara. They also find out that Clara is one of the mothers that carried one of the babies. They go after Nelly, tracking her through Clara’s credit card, though she isn’t at the hotel that the credit card indicates. But Fake Tambor is! Rachel tries to stop him but he gets away.

Hood is worried about the babies, and rightly so. Baby #4 has a fever, and Nelly and Christofer go to a hospital and get some help on the sly from a nurse. Hood knows that for there to be four babies, they were probably made for someone sick to use their organs. Through Carla’s bank account they find that a woman named Jennifer Hammer gave her large sums of money, probably for her use as a surrogate. They talk to Jennifer and find out that her mother is dying from liver cirrhosis, though her mother doesn’t know what Jennifer has done. Jennifer has been giving money to a company named GenVictus to do the cloning.

GenVictus is an industrial agricultural cloning company, mostly cloning show horses and other prize-winning animals. Through a process called the Pinnochio effect, they have managed to lengthen the telomeres which stops the natural aging process so clones don’t have as many health issues. This technique was patented by Miranda Cochran, a successful geneticist who fell off the grid only to become…

Gepetto, of course! Hood has her put on the FBI’s ten most wanted list. He’s also got a monitor on hospitals so if any sick babies are brought in, he’ll know about it. Of course Nelly brings baby #4 in when her fever worsens, and Fake Tambor follows her there. Luckily Rachel and Hood are there as well, so they take him down. They have him call Gepetto and tell her everything is a-okay, so they can storm in and get her. They do, and they discover she actually cloned the babies for herself, as she has an incurable disease. Too bad for her, because she won’t get a transplant in prison!

The babies are all safe, and baby #4 just had the flu. Nelly and Christofer get to keep her and stay in the country, and the other babies are adopted.

Another successful win for Rachel and Jacob against genetic evil. I’ve got to wonder what the plan is, what with eliminating what seemed to be Jacob’s arch nemesis. I suppose there will always be another one!